Old-school rally fans, here is something really special for you today. Frozen Lake Games, a solo gaming studio, has announced Old School Rally; a new rally racing game that has 32-bit retro graphics.
Old School Rally will immediately remind you of the classic Colin McRae Rally game that came out on PC and PlayStation in 1998. Or at least that’s the first rally game that came to my mind when I watched its trailer.
Everything feels like the 90s in this game. The cars, the graphics, the stages. This is a must-have for all old-school rally fans out there.
Now I don’t know how many of you miss those 32-bit rally days. Personally, I prefer this type of rally game to the open-world racing games we’ve been getting lately. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Test Drive Unlimited when it came out. However, developers solely focused on creating open-world games and as a result of that, we lost all the classic rally games.
Frozen Lake Games plans to release Old School Rally in 2024, although there is no exact release date yet. The game will first hit Early Access, and it will remain there for 6-10 months. The Early Access version will offer players a robust experience with numerous cars and tracks to enjoy and various modes including Rally mode and Time Trial mode.
Since I’m not a fan of Early Access games, so I might have to wait until – and if – Old School Rally fully releases. I get why Frozen Lake Games wants to release it in Early Access. After all, this is the creation of a solo developer.
A lot of players have been asking for more casual/old-school rally games. And a lot have been asking for more arcade SEGA “blue-sky” racing games. So, here is one of them. And, from the trailer, it seems to have solid driving mechanics. So, I really hope this old-school rally game will find an audience.
Enjoy the following gameplay trailer and stay tuned for more!
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Fantastic! These devs know that Games are Toys for playing actually. I’m humbled.
You’re right and wrong simultaneously, cause we have indeed the “toys for playing”, but also simulators for a most serious approach.
After buying my first decent wheel, I can’t stand playing arcade racing games anymore.
Damn, its opposite with me, I just cannot enjoy todays racing game due to they are too easy almost without challenge when assist turned ON, but impossible to play and enjoy with gamepad when one of that assist turned OFF. While Arcade racing game of the old time like NFS Hot Pursuit 2 even with a gamepad that challenge still intact and present.
One contrast I could provide is within Gran Turismo series. I enjoyed 1, 2 and 3 immensely especially in Simulation mode, the challenge is there when control the game using gamepad, its enjoyable couch sitting experience. But starting with 4 I just cannot enjoying it much , the control with gamepad is finnicky like I explained in the first paragraph and become not enjoyable for me personally to play. Even driving most racing todays game with gamepad feel more difficult than dricing the real car
Indeed, I’m sure they fück up with the gameplay via gamepad to force us into buying a wheel.
Looks nothing like a PSX rally game, much too high fidelity. Also not really sure of the point of the game when you can just play an old PC rally game instead. At least with boomer shooters they are entirely different games.
Cash grab attempt, nothing more.
Retarded comment, nothing more
Nothing wrong with high fidelity, some folks wants to make a psx game look like a entry title from 1995 lol. It is important to be easy on the eyes too.
That being said, i think Dreamcast/ps2/gc/xbox graphics nostalgia makes much more sense, because 3d games started looking good on that era and 2d pixel art was at the peak as well..
Wow feels nostalgic.
Looks kinda cool. I recommend Rush Rally 3 which is amazingly only about 300mb and definitely feels like the early WRC games graphics wise, not those 50gb monster rally games more casual w great sound. Made by one guy too.
Better than Starfield, AC Mirage, Saints Row, Suicide Squad, etc, etc…
and only made by 1 person and not 200-400… and didn’t cost 40 million dollars… and its fun…. and wont kill a dev studio a month from now. and doesn’t tell me or by son to become a women and our European history and legacy is bad and needs to be erased and replaced…….. weird how things are….. i wonder if this dev had a Israeli backed publisher or jewish employees or those who were schooled in jewish h.s/college if things would be different…. really makes you think!
1 competent person beats 200 pastel haired social justice warriors with ulterior motives.
This looks like another case of mistaking low tech for low effort and low attention to detail. The reason we have fond memories of the older games is because the devs were pushing hard to extract every last drop of value from the hardware limitations. I don’t know why you would think it is good to make something like this now and not add extra particle effects and such. Give the look but give it extra in a way that is new. If you can do that well then you will have a major hit on your hands.
lol this is ridiculous, but I find these graphics way more attractive than ANY other racing game released in the past 10 years.
(Except maybe Automobilista 2, but it could have been so much better)
This looks like a late 90s game, which was the golden age of PC gaming for me.
I know another one which is very cool, and which looks like an early 2000s game: Rush Rally 3.
Highly recommended. It plays totally like Colin McRae Rally 2.0 or 3.
Also, I reinstalled recently CMR 2 and I think that Rush Rally 3 feels even better. The roads are smoother, in a good way. People often forget that the track design was crude in some parts of CMR 2.
Anyway, if the driving physics are at least as good as CMR 2, then I can’t wait to try it.
Awesome 👍
Also hate open world sh*t – that aint a racing game
That’s why I play Dirt 4 all the time!
Cant wait for this!!
Im legitly thought that was CMR 2.0 for PSX